Argentina: 400,000 March in Solidarity With Striking Teachers

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Some 400,000 people took to the streets and shut down the center of Buenos Aires through a massive demonstration in support of striking public school teachers and against the policies of President Mauricio Macri.

On March 6 and 7, teachers nationwide, accompanied by large sectors of the General Confederation of Labor of the Republic of Argentina (CGT), went on strike in the largest work stoppage since Macri assumed the presidency in December of 2015.

Macri, the first Argentine leader in history not to have attended public school (as is the case with most of the ministers in his cabinet), has been feeling the wrath of teachers unions since then as he refuses to meet their demands amidst an economic crisis caused by Macri's economic reforms.

Macri's policies have led to an economy heavily slowed by a drop in industrial production and...